michael.mundt
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I am trying to make a backup of my system by creating a disk image of it. I've followed the instructions I found, which are
to
1. boot from the OS X install DVD.
2. go into disk utility.
3. do new->image from folder->Macintosh HD
4. pick a target destination, which is an external USB drive
5. hit 'create'
What happens is the following. I get a taskbar saying that it's creating the image, and that finishes eventually. then i get a new taskbar saying that it's copying. about 60% of the way through this, everything stops. when i move the mouse, the DVD
starts spinning and the machine hangs (no longer responsive to the mouse).
The partial image that was copied to the external drive is actually mountable. It shows that the image was created with a size of 50 GB but that only 31 GB is used. Also,
I can see where the copying ceased. It's actually in a user home directory with a bunch of plain files (no symbolic links or anything like that).
The external drive has plenty of free space, so that doesn't appear to be the problem.
I tried with several different options for the disk image: Compressed/no encryption, Read-write/encryption, and Read-write/no encryption. The last option seemed the most appropriate but obviously still doesn't work.
I am running 10.4.8 on a dual 2 GHz PowerPC G5, and the install DVD is for 10.4.
Any help I could get would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Michael Mundt
to
1. boot from the OS X install DVD.
2. go into disk utility.
3. do new->image from folder->Macintosh HD
4. pick a target destination, which is an external USB drive
5. hit 'create'
What happens is the following. I get a taskbar saying that it's creating the image, and that finishes eventually. then i get a new taskbar saying that it's copying. about 60% of the way through this, everything stops. when i move the mouse, the DVD
starts spinning and the machine hangs (no longer responsive to the mouse).
The partial image that was copied to the external drive is actually mountable. It shows that the image was created with a size of 50 GB but that only 31 GB is used. Also,
I can see where the copying ceased. It's actually in a user home directory with a bunch of plain files (no symbolic links or anything like that).
The external drive has plenty of free space, so that doesn't appear to be the problem.
I tried with several different options for the disk image: Compressed/no encryption, Read-write/encryption, and Read-write/no encryption. The last option seemed the most appropriate but obviously still doesn't work.
I am running 10.4.8 on a dual 2 GHz PowerPC G5, and the install DVD is for 10.4.
Any help I could get would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Michael Mundt